Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.

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

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to