Only the educated are free.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

No onewould talk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

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.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.