A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

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.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.