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

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.