Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

To beprepared is half the victory.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

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

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,

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.