Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.