A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

It'snot the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes thedifference.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

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

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

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise