Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

The comforter's head never aches.

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

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

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares