Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

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

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Well done is better than well said.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.