No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

The secret of success in life is known only by those who have not succeeded.

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

The path of light is quest for knowledge.

Why must we climb away to the seal-less parts of the world?

Success breeds success on a marathon route. If you can prove to yourself that you are doing well, then invariably you will do even better.

Today, the rich are the haves and the poor are the have-nots. Tomorrow, the rich will be the have-food and the poor will be the have-not food.

I think the fact that I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it.

People learned to live with the most unimaginable things.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ.

A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.