Style Is The Outcome Of Constraint.

Often We Allow Ourselves To Be Upset By Small Things We Should Despise And Forget. We Lose Many Irreplaceable Hours Brooding Over Grievances That, In A Year's Time, Will Be Forgotten By Us And By Everybody. No, Let Us Devote Our Life To Worthwhile Actions And Feelings, To Great Thoughts, Real Affections And Enduring Undertakings.

Stupidity Is A Factor To Be Reckoned With In Human Affairs. The True Leader Always Expects To Encounter It, And Prepares To Endure It Patiently So Long As It Is Normal Stupidity. He Knows That His Ideas Will Be Distorted, His Orders Carelessly Executed; And That There Will Be Jealousy Among His Assistants. He Takes These Inevitable Phenomena Into Account, And Instead Of Attempting To Find Men Without Faults, Who Are Non-existent, He Tries To Make Use Of The Best Men At His Disposal - As They Are, And Not As They Ought To Be.

Genius Consists Of Equal Parts Of Natural Aptitude And Hard Work.

The Art Of Growing Old Is The Art Of Being Regarded By The Oncoming Generations As A Support And Not As A Stumbling-block...

To Desire To Be Perpetually In The Society Of A Pretty Woman Until The End Of One's Days, Is As If, Because One Likes Good Wine, One Wished Always To Have One's Mouth Full Of It.