The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

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

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

A language is like living skin itself.