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.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

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

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.