Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

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.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.