No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

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,

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags