When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.

Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.