The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

When a man meets his mates society begins.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

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.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

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.