Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical