True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.