The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

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