I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

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

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Wenever have the time to do it right but always have time to do it over.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

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.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.