Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

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.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.