Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

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

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.