Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

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

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

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

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Ability is poor men's wealth

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