Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

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.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

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.