Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

To be preparedis half the victory.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.