There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

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

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Our errors are steps on the way.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

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.