Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

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

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.