It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.