Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

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

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

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.