Real swaraj will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few but by the acquisition of capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

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.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.