One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.