Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.