The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Gossip is the art of saying nothing, in a manner that leaves nothing unsaid

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

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.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.