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

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.