A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

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

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

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

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.