A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.