Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

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

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.