The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Life only demands from you the strength you posses

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.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.