Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

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