When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

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.

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

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

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