Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.