The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

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.

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

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

When weblame, we give away our power.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.