Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

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

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.