There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.