It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

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

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

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.