We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.