Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

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.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

An expert is a man, who dosent has all the answers, but he is sure that if that he is given enough money he can find them.

Step after step the ladder is ascended

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.