Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them