Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Don't beafraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.