The comforter's head never aches.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.