Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

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

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Habit: the shackles of the free

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him