You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

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