Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

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

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Necessity truns lion into fox.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment