Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

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

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.