The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.