There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

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.