A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.

A pleasure companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside. Patanjali -I Ching .

No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

. . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.

To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise.

The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.

They that die by famine die by inches.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill; Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

What you cannot enforce, do not command.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself.

Apt Alliteration's artful aid.

In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him. Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.

For all their luxury was doing good.