Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.

If you can’t return a favor, pass it on.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.

The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

There are no speed limits on the road to success.