Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

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