Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries?

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?

He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much.

He that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.

Of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words aga ...