Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Discord gives a relish to concord.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.