Neversay more than is necessary.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

A room without books is a body without soul