Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

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

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

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

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

Past time is only eviil at a distance.