Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Ittakes time to save time.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

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.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

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

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.