Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

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

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

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

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,

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

Silenceis the mother of truth.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.