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

God has created the world in play.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

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,

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .