A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

... 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

Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.