Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.