When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

... 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

Life only demands from you the strength you posses

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

As long as there is life there is danger.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.