He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

A good conscience is the best divinity.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.