Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.