Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

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

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

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

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.