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

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

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.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.