To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.