The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.