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

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.