There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

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 arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.