I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

Ittakes time to save time.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.