Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

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

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

To everyanswer you can find a new question.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

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

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out