You made your bed, now lie in it.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

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

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.