To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.

A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare.

Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.