Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

A room without books is a body without soul

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

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.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.