You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

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

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to