Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

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

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.