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

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.