There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

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.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.