Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Patience is the art of hoping.

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.

People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

A language is like living skin itself.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.