In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and read more

In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to have returned.

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read more

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

If this phrase of the "balance of power" is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war read more

If this phrase of the "balance of power" is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy -- a few tears of human spirit in with the read more

I always try to balance the light with the heavy -- a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of read more

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and a multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself and holds a just balance between what read more

Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter read more

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.

Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with read more

Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.