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

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

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

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.