Inspiration comes of working every day.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.