There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

A half truth is a whole lie.

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.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge