Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.