Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

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

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

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.