He Who Has Found A Good Wife

One Has Very Little Influence Upon One's Children. Their Characters Are What They Are And One Can Do Nothing To Change Them.

Stupidity Is A Factor To Be Reckoned With In Human Affairs. The True Leader Always Expects To Encounter It, And Prepares To Endure It Patiently So Long As It Is Normal Stupidity. He Knows That His Ideas Will Be Distorted, His Orders Carelessly Executed; And That There Will Be Jealousy Among His Assistants. He Takes These Inevitable Phenomena Into Account, And Instead Of Attempting To Find Men Without Faults, Who Are Non-existent, He Tries To Make Use Of The Best Men At His Disposal - As They Are, And Not As They Ought To Be.

If Men Could Regard The Events Of Their Own Lives With More Open Minds, They Would Frequently Discover That They Did Not Really Desire The Things They Failed To Obtain.

An Old Man, Having Retired From Active Life, Regains The Gaity And Irresponsibility Of Childhood. He Is Ready To Play, He Cannot Run With His Son, But He Can Totter With His Grandson. Our First And Last Steps Have The Same Rhythm.

Learning Is Nothing Without Cultivated Manners, But When The Two Are Combined In A Woman, You Have One Of The Most Exquisite Products Of Civilization.