Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

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

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,

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

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

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.