Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

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

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.