Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.