When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.