Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

Ability is poor men's wealth

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

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