Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

God made time, but man made haste.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

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.

Example is better than following it.