Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

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.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

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

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.