Past time is only eviil at a distance.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

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

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.