Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.

One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer.

Good discourse sinks differences and seeks agreements.