Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

Aproblem is a chance for you to do your best.

Talkback to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

... 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

Genius is a long impatience.

You can't unscramble an egg.