Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there to wake up the soul.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

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