The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

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.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.