The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Don't be took quick to belive anything you read.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.