Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

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.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

You made your bed, now lie in it.