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

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

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

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.