The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Renown and repose do not go together.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

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

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.