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

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

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.