The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

God has created the world in play.

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

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 young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.