Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

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

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.