People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.