A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.

Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.