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

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

To be preparedis half the victory.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.