Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

It's good to shut up sometimes.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.