Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

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

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side