One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

In Prayer it is better to have a Heart without Words than words without a Heart.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

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.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Do notfind fault, find a remedy.