Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

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

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

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.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.