Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.