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,

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.