A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

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,

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.