Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

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

No onewould talk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

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.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.