Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

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.

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

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

Every advantage has its tax

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.