Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.