Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

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

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

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

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.