Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

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.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?