Nogarden is without its weeds.

Itis all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself.But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

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.

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,

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.