First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.