In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.