Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.