To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

... 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

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.