As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

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

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

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.