I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Buying ischeaper than asking.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

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.