A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

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

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

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.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.