All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

A foolshows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

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