There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

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

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

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