A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

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

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

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

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge