There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

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...

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.