If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

... 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

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.