Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

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

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

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.