Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

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

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Much learning does not teach understanding.