“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

“If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.”

“Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain”

“Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?”

“Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.”

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”

“Even if the heavy cloud fails to bring heavy rainfall, it cools the atmosphere”

“And as a few strokes on the nose will make a puppy head shy, so a few rebuffs will make a boy shy all over. But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cov...”