Example is better than following it.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

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.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.