Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

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,

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

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

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.