Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.