Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

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

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

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.