You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

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

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.