It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.

Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.

To young people the future is still long.

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.