Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

Evil communication corrupt good manners.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

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

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Everything has it's beauty, but not every one sees it.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.