It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

... 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

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.