Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.