It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Personal appearance is looking the best you can for the money.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.