If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

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 status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.