If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

Those who trust us educate us.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

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.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.