All thingsat first appear difficult.

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!

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

Outside noisy, inside empty.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.