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

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,

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

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

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

Symanpathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.