When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Every advantage has its tax

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.