Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

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.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again