The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

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

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

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

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.