Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

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

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.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.