The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

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

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people angry enough to do something about it

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

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

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

It's good to shut up sometimes.