No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Only the educated are free.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to