Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

The talker will lead the dog to the meat market.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the