Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.