It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

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.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to