As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

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

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.