It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

You can't unscramble an egg.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Those who trust us educate us.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

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.

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