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

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 is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

A half truth is a whole lie.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

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.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.