Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.