It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

Genius is a long impatience.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

To teach isto learn twice.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...