Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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,

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.