Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.
Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after is has happened; but only the wise man knows at the moment what is vital and permanent, what is lasting and memorable.
One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.
Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.