Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

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

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

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

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

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.