Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

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.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

Ability is poor men's wealth

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