Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

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

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

It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

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

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !