Much learning does not teach understanding.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

They mayforget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

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

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

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.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.