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

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

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

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.