To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

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.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

The comforter's head never aches.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

God made time, but man made haste.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.