No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

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.

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

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.