When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

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

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

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