Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Example is better than following it.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp