Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

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 quiettongue shows a wise head.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.