A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.