A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Nothing is a permanent except change.