Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Every advantage has its tax

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.