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

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

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

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.