Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

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

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!