When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

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

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

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.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.