The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

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

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.