It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

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

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

People say law but they mean wealth.

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

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.