Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

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

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.