Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

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

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.