A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

... 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

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.