Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

Accomplishmentof purpose is better than making a profit.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.