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

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

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

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

A half truth is a whole lie.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

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

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.