A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

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

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.