Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

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.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

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

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.