Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

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

Our errors are steps on the way.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

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

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.

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

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous