If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

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

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

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

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.