If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Don't be took quick to belive anything you read.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.