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.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

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

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

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.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.