Thehardest step is over the threshold.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

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

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.