Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

The major cause of traffic accidents is that men put into their cars as much ego as petrol.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

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