He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

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

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Ittakes time to save time.

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,

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.