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

Evil communication corrupt good manners.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

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.

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.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.