Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

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.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.