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

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

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

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.