It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

God made time, but man made haste.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

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

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.