Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

When you hear the word 'Invietable' watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.