It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Truthsprings from argument amongst friends.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

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.

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.