It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

He whoangers you, conquers you.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains