Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

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.