Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

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,

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

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.