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,

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Tolerance that accepts merits as the most natural thing in World is the highest applause.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.