The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

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

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