Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

Barba non facit philosophum

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.

What do you mean, You have No Dreams?The Truth is, you have No Courage.

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.

We need wisdom the most when we believe in it the least.

Stone dead," said Howard, as though there were degrees of deadness, and the kind that Barry Fairbrother had contracted was particularly sordid.

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.

The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance

The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.

Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.

Keep government out of the money of the people, schools of the people, and will of the people.

Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.