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

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.