To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

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.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.