Opportunists take now for an answer.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

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.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.