Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

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.

Ittakes time to save time.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.