If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

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.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.