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.

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

Time is the wisest of all counselors.

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

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

If we can become still and open-minded we might all feel that unseen hand on our shoulder, letting us know we are not alone.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.

That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.

Genius requires an audience.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.

Stresses in a marriage and in family life, sometimes they're prompted by whatever is going on in the wider world as well as what's going on behind your door.

If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free: wrongs cannot have a legal descent.