A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

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.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.