Close Alliances With Despots Are Never Safe

Every Advantage In The Past Is Judged In The Light Of The Final Issue.

Small Opportunities Often Presage Great Enterprises.

To Remind A Man Of The Good Turns You Have Done Him Is Very Much Like A Reproach.

Since We Are Not Yet Fully Comfortable With The Idea That People From The Next Village Are As Human As Ourselves, It Is Presumptuous In The Extreme To Suppose We Could Ever Look At Sociable, Tool-making Creatures Who Are From Other Evolutionary Paths And See Not Beasts, But Brothers, Not Rivals, But Fellow Pilgrims Journeying To The Shrine Of Intelligence...the Difference... Is Not In The Creature Judged, But In The Creature Judging.

Good Fortune Is The Greatest Of Blessings, But Good Counsel Comes Next, And The Lack Of It Destroys The Other Also.