A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Ittakes time to save time.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

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.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.