Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

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