There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

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

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.