Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

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.

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.