A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

The comforter's head never aches.

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.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Neversay more than is necessary.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.