Renown and repose do not go together.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

Timinghas a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.

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 fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion