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

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

He understands badly who listens badly.

You made your bed, now lie in it.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

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

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.