Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

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

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

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