One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Unlessa man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

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.