A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Toevery answer you can find a new question.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

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.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.