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

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

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.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.