Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

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

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

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.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side