It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out