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

To be preparedis half the victory.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Ittakes time to save time.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.