Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

The property of power is to protect.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

Somepeople reach the top of the ladder only to find it is leaning against thewrong wall.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

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

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.