The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

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Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.