If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.