The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.