It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candour

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.