Silence is argument carried out by other means.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

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.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.