Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.