Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

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

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

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Genius is a long impatience.