The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

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.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

Suspicion begets suspicion.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.