Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

... 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

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.