Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

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

Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

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

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

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Genius is a long impatience.

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