The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

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.

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

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!