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,

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

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

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

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

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.