Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

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.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Kindwords can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.