A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

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

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

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.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it