If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that beliefbecomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

... 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

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.