Trust few men; above all, keep your follies to yourself.

The bodies of men, munition, and money may justly be called the sinews of war.

The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.

Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice.

According to Solomon, life and death are in the power of the tongue; and as Euripides truly affirmeth, every unbridled tongue in the end shall find itself unfortunate; for in all that ever I observed in the course of worldly things, I ever found that men's fortunes are oftener made by their tongues than by their virtues, and more men's fortunes overthrown thereby, also, than by their vices.

Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

Bad language or abuse, I never, never use, Whatever the emergency; Though 'Bother it' I may Occasionally say, I never use a big, big D : What, never? : No, never! : What never? : Well, hardly ever! : Hardly ever swears a big, big D Then give three cheers, and one cheer more, For the well-bred Captain of the Pinafore!