A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

Do notfind fault, find a remedy.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Thereare two sides to every question.

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.