All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

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.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.