Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.