Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Themost prepared are the most dedicated.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.