Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

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

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

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Life only demands from you the strength you posses

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.