Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

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.