Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

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,

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

What is well done is done soon enough.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

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

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.