It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him