If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

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.