Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

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

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.