Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

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,

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.