Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.