Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

When trumpt sound today where wood you be! if you die today your JESUS has come! how could you give account of your life if JESUS meet you in your sinful life! repent now tomorrow might too late for you!

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.