Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

The present is never a happy state to any being

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

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

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.