Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

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Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

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