Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

What is well done is done soon enough.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned