Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

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

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.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

To everyanswer you can find a new question.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.