A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol