The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

Stability is not immobility

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

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

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

EDUCATION BEGINS WITH LIFE.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

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.