Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.

I am more or less happy when being praised, not very comfortable when being abused, but I have moments of uneasiness when being explained.

The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.

Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may be catalogued for purposes of education, they may be illustrated by arresting experiments, by numbers and magnitudes which startle or fatigue the imagination but they will form no familiar portion of the intellectual furniture of ordinary men unless they be connected, however remotely, with the conduct of ordinary life.

There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.

Enthusiasm moves the world.

I never forgive, but I always forget.