Allthings at first appear difficult.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.