One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

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.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.