All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Genius is a long impatience.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

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

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

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

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him