Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Example is better than following it.

The property of power is to protect.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

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

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.