 Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first. |
| You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. |
| Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality. |
| We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. |
| A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. |
| Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. |
| Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. |
| The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation. |
| Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character. |
| If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any. |
| We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. |
| Reason is the servant of instinct. |
| There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. |
| If you don't go to other men funerals they won't go to yours. |
