Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

When weblame, we give away our power.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.