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

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

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.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.