Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

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

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.