One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

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

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

A good conscience is the best divinity.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

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

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.