The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

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.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

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

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.