Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

The comforter's head never aches.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

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.