Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there to wake up the soul.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Sweet is pleasure after pain

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

A good conscience is the best divinity.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.