You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

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

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

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.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side