The citizen must have high ideals, and yet he must be able to achieve them inpractical fashion.

the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very muchhigher.

The more you can forgive a person, the more you can love him.

Truly things are better in general now, in America, than in the past.

To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered.

Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

We must get out of materialism.

You gotta climb the steps... you can't skip them