Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

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.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Habit: the shackles of the free