If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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.

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

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.