Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

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.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.