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

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

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

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it