Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

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.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.