The average man’

The average man’
The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.
  

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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.
Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.
Nostrength within, no respect without.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.
Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.
Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.
To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.
God has created the world in play.
Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.