It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

... 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

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.