Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

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

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.