Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

Our errors are steps on the way.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.