If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

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

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

.Oneshould count each day a separate life.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.