Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.

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

It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.