The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

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,

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.