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

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

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

As long as there is life there is danger.

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.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.