It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags