To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

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,

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.