If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.