If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

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

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

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.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.