A danger forseen is half avoided.

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

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.