Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

No strength within, no respect without.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.