Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

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.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.