Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

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