Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

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

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Habit: the shackles of the free

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !