If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.

I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.