Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

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.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.