Onemust talk little and listen much.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to