If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

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

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

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.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur