Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out