The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

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