The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Those who trust us educate us.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

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.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.