Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.

Symanpathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.