Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.