Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

I like deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they rush by.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or in few, is ever grasping, and, like the grave, cries, “Give, give.”

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with order and attended to with diligence.