A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

Jealousy shows weakness and we must be strong to except ourselves for who we truly are.

It doesn't matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love!

The general perception, in much of the Middle East, is that the United States is an unreliable friend and a harmless enemy. I think we want to give the exact opposite impression.

No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone... you answer it.

We as human beings have the amazing capacity to be reborn at breakfast everyday and say, “This is a new day.”

We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness.

I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.

In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.

Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.

You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.