There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

When a man meets his mates society begins.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...