Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.

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.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Habit: the shackles of the free

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.