Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

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

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

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.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

As a final incentive before giving up a

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.