Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

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

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

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

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

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

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.