Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

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.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Everything has it's beauty, but not every one sees it.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.