I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.