People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

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,

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

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

A language is like living skin itself.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.