Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

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.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

You can't unscramble an egg.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.