Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall 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.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.