To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

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

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.