Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

Be notdisturbed at being misunderstood; be disturbed at not understanding.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.