Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

... 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

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.