Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

The present is never a happy state to any being

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.