Pain is the outcome of sin.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

Stability is not immobility

Prayer changes things by changing people.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

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

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him