Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Renown and repose do not go together.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.