Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

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

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

You can't unscramble an egg.