Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

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.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.