To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

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