The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

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

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.