Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

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.

Only the educated are free.

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

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