Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.