Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

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

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Remember when feminisit movements were something men gathered on street corners to admire as the girls strolled by

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

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

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.