Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

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

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

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,

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.