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

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

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.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.