You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

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

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.