Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

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,

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

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.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.