The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.