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

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

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

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.