If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

The major cause of traffic accidents is that men put into their cars as much ego as petrol.

Evil communication corrupt good manners.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to