Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs - sex especially. When they are growing up, they are nerve ends all over, and resent (quite properly) any invasion of their privacy. Oh, sure, they'll make mistakes - but that's their business, not yours. (You made your own mistakes, did you not?)

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Money is the sincerest of all flattery. Women love to be flattered. So do men.

Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM).

Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.