Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Renown and repose do not go together.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.