If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

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.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.