Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

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

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.