The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

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

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.