Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Renown and repose do not go together.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.