Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

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

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history