Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

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

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.