Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

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

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

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

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

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

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.