Every advantage has its tax

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

A faithful friend is medicine of Life.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…