It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

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,

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.