It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

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

You can't unscramble an egg.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

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

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.