A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Necessity truns lion into fox.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.