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

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

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

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.