Patience is the art of hoping.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

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

Necessity truns lion into fox.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.