If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion.

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?