It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere.