The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.