Ability is poor men's wealth

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

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

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.