Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.