Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

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

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.