Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

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.