The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

People say law but they mean wealth.

Symanpathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.