Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

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

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

The present is never a happy state to any being

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

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.