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

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

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

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.