Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

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

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

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

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 fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

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

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.