Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

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

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.