If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Well done is better than well said.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

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,

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

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

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.