Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

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

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

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

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.