It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

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.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.