Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

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

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.