Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

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

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

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.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!