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

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

Patience is the art of hoping.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.