None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

What is well done is done soon enough.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

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.