A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
History is more or less bunk.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.