The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.