You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

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

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di