The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

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

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Compromise,n. 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.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

People say law but they mean wealth.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.