Malice drinketh its own poison.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.