The burnt child shuns the fire. Until next day.
Mark Twain Quotes
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
We have named it Cain. She caught it while I was up country trapping; caught it in the timber a couple of miles from our dug-out – or it might have been four, she isn’t certain which. It resembles us in some ways, and may be a relation. That is what she thinks, but this […]
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.
A healthy and wholeseome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
Chastity – you can carry it too far.
In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.
A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
When one’s character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.
