One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

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.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.