The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.

By words the mind is winged.

Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.

I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.