Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.