A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

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.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.