The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

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

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.