It's good to shut up sometimes.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.