The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

A language is like living skin itself.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

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

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

Symanpathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

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

Every advantage has its tax

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.