Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.

Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.

When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.