A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

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

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

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

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was