Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

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

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.