Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

A room without books is a body without soul

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

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

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.