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.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

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

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Habit: the shackles of the free