Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

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...

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.