If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Life only demands from you the strength you posses

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.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.