Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol