Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

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

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.