Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

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.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

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.

Ability is poor men's wealth

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.