Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.