Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Peopleshould talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speechaltogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to sayvisually.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.