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

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

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

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

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.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.