Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to read more

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

The greatest power is often simple patience.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Then, everlasting Love, restrain thy will;
'Tis god-like to have power, but not to kill.

Then, everlasting Love, restrain thy will;
'Tis god-like to have power, but not to kill.

Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.
[Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]

Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy.
[Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudanda voluntas.]

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed read more

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

Without his rod revers'd,
And backward mutters of dissevering power.

Without his rod revers'd,
And backward mutters of dissevering power.