One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

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,