It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

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.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Neversay more than is necessary.