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

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

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

The hardeststep is over the threshold.