Renown and repose do not go together.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ��mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

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

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

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.