Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

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

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

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

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

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

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.