To exaggrerate is to weaken.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

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

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

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

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Everything has it's beauty, but not every one sees it.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.