Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

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 lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Don't be took quick to belive anything you read.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.