Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

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

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

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.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.