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

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

A faithful friend is medicine of Life.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

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

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.