Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.