If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

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 work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Pleasant words are the food of love.