To exaggrerate is to weaken.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

A goodmanager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wastingthe energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight youopenly when they think that you are wrong that's healthy.