It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

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

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

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

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.