Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

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

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

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

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

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

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.