Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

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.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

A good conscience is the best divinity.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

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