Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man’s spirit than when we win his heart.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

Rudeness is the weal person’s imitation of strength.

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

A great man’s greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

A man by himself is in bad company.

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.