All thingsat first appear difficult.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

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

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Example is better than following it.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

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

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.