Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

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,

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.