Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

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.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

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.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.