If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Every advantage has its tax

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

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

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.