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

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.