Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

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

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

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.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.