Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Example is better than following it.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.