If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

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.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

God has created the world in play.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.