It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

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,

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

When a man meets his mates society begins.

Discord gives a relish to concord.