Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

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.