Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

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.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.