If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

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.

Remember when feminisit movements were something men gathered on street corners to admire as the girls strolled by

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.