An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

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

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.