If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom.”
“it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
have learned from those who know how to preserve the tradition of music. I play music the way it used to be played.