Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

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

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.