Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .