Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Stability is not immobility

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

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.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.