Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

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

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

The comforter's head never aches.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

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.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.