The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

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 creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.