The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

A room without books is a body without soul

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

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