Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

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

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Nevercut what you can untie.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.