WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

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

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

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.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.