Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Renown and repose do not go together.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.