People loan their trust, they don't give it.

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

Example is better than following it.

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

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

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.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.