Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

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

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

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,