It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

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.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.