All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.