Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

The principle of equal protection is a positive concept implying equality of treatment in equal circumstances.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

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.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.