Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

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

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Real swaraj will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few but by the acquisition of capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.