People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Ifanyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.

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

People say law but they mean wealth.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

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