Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

The principle of equal protection is a positive concept implying equality of treatment in equal circumstances.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.