Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

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

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

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.