Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.