Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.