Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Stability is not immobility

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

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

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

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.