Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

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.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.