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

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

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 is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.