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

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

Truthsprings from argument amongst friends.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Those who trust us educate us.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.