Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

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.