Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

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

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer