A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.