Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.

Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel.