Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

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

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

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