If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

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

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

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

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

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