Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

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

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.