In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

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

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Genius is a long impatience.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

... 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

He understands badly who listens badly.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.