A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Faith is continuation of reason.

Do notfind fault, find a remedy.

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.