The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

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

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.