Pain is the outcome of sin.

Sparrows who emulate peacocks are likely to break a thigh.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.