Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.