Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

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

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

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

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.