Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand, he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both, but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.

It is the lark that sings so out of tune, Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.

The cold absolute truth is much more preferred than a kind and uncertain lie.

What a taking was he in when your husband asked who was in the basket! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 3.

Give me a productive error over a boring, mundane and unproductive fact any day.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

I believe in grumbling it is the politest form of fighting known.

There are two days in the week on which I never worry; One is yesterday and the other is tomorrow.

Do not say,"it is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. -Rabindranath Tagore.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

If Christ and His work and His sacrifice do not result in Christlikeness in you and me, then for us it is quite valueless, and has entirely failed; and, insofar as you and I are concerned, Christ was thrown away in vain. How, then, is it with you and me? Be very sure that upon Calvary it was no strange, immoral favouritism that came into operation, whereby because of some beliefs that remain mere dead letters, that produce no change whatever in their characters, some people living the same kind of life as others and following the same selfish interests and ends as they, are given a destiny entirely different. That is the vainest of vain dreams. Rather is this the supreme revelation of a new way of living life; and only those who -- blunderingly, it may be, yet honestly -- seek to adopt and imitate it can be counted really Christian folk.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.

Who opened the cattleguard?

Agreement exists in disagreement.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.