As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.