As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

Many married couples separate because they quarrel incessantly, but just as many separate because they were never honest enough or courageous enough to quarrel when they should have.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.