Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

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

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.