The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

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