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

A language is like living skin itself.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

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

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.