Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

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.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.