The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.