Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

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.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

When weblame, we give away our power.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.