Voilence is a Just when kindness is vain

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

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.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

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

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.