Melancholy is the joy of being said.

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

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

Beautifullight is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is oftenthe strongest and the best.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

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.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.