Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

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

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.