When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.