The art of writing is the art of restraint.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Example is better than following it.

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

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Sweet is pleasure after pain

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.