Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

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

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

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

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

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