Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

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...

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

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.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise