Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice. - Philip Dormer Stanhope

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

Listen to everything that is said, and see everything that is done. Observe the looks and countenances of those who speak, which is often a surer way of discovering the truth than from what they say. But then keep all those observations to yourself, for your own private use, and rarely communicate them to others. Observe, without being thought an observer, for otherwise people will be upon their guard before you.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.