The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

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

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Genius is a long impatience.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.