The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence. The greatest conqueror wins without struggle. The most successful manager leads without dictating. This is intelligent nonaggressiveness. This is called the mastery of men.

Et tu, Brute?--Then fall Caesar.

The end never really justifies the meanness.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Feast of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath & Wells, Hymnographer, 1711 [The] doctrine of [inevitable] progress sustained our fathers in the carrying of capitalistic democratic culture to most parts of the globe. Its core was the conviction that, in thus extending the range of western liberal culture and developing its assumptions, they were in effect establishing on earth that which would grow into the kingdom of God. Some put it sharply but un-Biblically: "building the kingdom"; others, of a more secular turn of mind, echoed J. A. Symonds' hymn, "These Things Shall Be". That whole view exists today only as debris, for it has foundered on the rocks, not so much of human sin, as of the contradictions and complexities of the very western culture that was the substance of its belief.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

The Cat in Gloves catches no Mice.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.

If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

Speak of the gods as they are.

Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing.

Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

Buying is cheaper than asking.

Public transportation notice: "When you exit this vehicle, please be sure to lower your head and watch your step. If you fail to do so, please lower your voice and watch your language. Thank you.".

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored.

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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