A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

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

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.