It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave