"Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads"
"Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him"
"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done"
"Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues"
"That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain"
"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong"
"However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure"
"Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions"
"Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies"
"It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar"
"It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved"
"Into each life some rain must fall"
"Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find"
"He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce"
"In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity"
"If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it"
"If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody"
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility"
