If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

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.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.