To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

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.