In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

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

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

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.