The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

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.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.