Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

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.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved