Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

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

EDUCATION BEGINS WITH LIFE.