Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
You know what they tell you to do when you’re assessing the value of your hand? If you’re defending – count the winners – but if you’re attacking count the losers.
Notoriety of the right kind is the best way of disarming suspicion.
If you wish to catch a rabbit you put a ferret into the hole, and if the rabbit is there he runs.
The young hero never tells his plans. They mature in the dark.
The small fry were left alone. Why? Because through them, sooner or later, we got the big fellow – the man at the top.
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant —
One should not lose one’s temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
One should always play fairly… when one has the winning cards.
In matters of moment, we should not so much strive to create opportunities as to profit by those that arise.[Dans les grandes affaires on doit moins s’appliquer à faire naître des occasions qu’à profiter de celles qui se présentent.]
If the spider lets the fly walk out too easily, the fly might suspect it was a put-up job.
If one man does not make a move, the other must, and by permitting the adversary to make the attack one learns something about him.
