When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

What is well done is done soon enough.

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.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.